The New Doubleday Cookbook [Hardcover]

Jean Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1985

The complete guide to the modern kitchen that swept the R.T. French Tastemaster Awards, now updated and revised to reflect America's new nutritional awareness and the trend toward healthier cooking.



B & W illustrations throughout

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

A huge, wide-ranging, updated, substantially expanded version of the 1975 Tastemaker Awardwinning Doubleday Cookbook, this compendious reference work makes up in sheer volume for what it lacks in grace of layout and design. It boasts over 4000 recipes running from the inevitable and familiar to the international and exotic. It spills over with information on nutrition, on equipment such as blenders, processors and convection and microwave ovens, with all manner of charts and tables, judicious guidance on calorie, sodium and cholesterol counts, with sensible advice on saving time and money, reliable counsel on assembling a well-furnished kitchen and well-stocked pantry and freezer. A noteworthy contemporary guide to the world of food and cooking. October 18
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher

The complete guide to the modern kitchen that swept the R.T. French Tastemaster Awards, now updated and revised to reflect America's new nutritional awareness and the trend toward healthier cooking.

B & W illustrations throughout

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 965 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; Revised edition (August 1, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 038519577X
• ISBN-13: 978-0385195775
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 2.7 x 10.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Winner of six best-cookbook awards and a member of the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame, JEAN ANDERSON is one of America's most trusted cookbook authors, a careful researcher and painstaking recipe-tester. She credits her Cornell food chemistry courses plus years in the New York test kitchens of THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL for teaching her the absolute necessity of recipes that work.

In addition to writing cookbooks, Anderson writes food and travel pieces for major American magazines and newspapers, among them BON APPÉTIT, FAMILY CIRCLE, FOOD & WINE, the late, lamented GOURMET, MORE, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and TRAVEL & LEISURE.

Known as the 'RECIPE DOC' because she loves nothing better than diagnosing and solving cooking problems, Anderson was for several years the "red phone" both at GOURMET and THE FOOD NETWORK. Got a recipe prob? Click on www.jeanandersoncooks.com and Anderson will do her best to solve it.


Photo by Rudy Muller.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a WONDERFUL cookbook, July 13, 2001

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Tim Warneka "Leadership Expert, Keynote Speak... (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Doubleday Cookbook (Hardcover)

I consider myself a fairly accomplished cook, so that when someone gave my wife and I a copy of this "basic" cookbook for our wedding, I was initially disappointed, thinking that I didn't need this book.

How WRONG I was! :-)

I have found this book to be completely invaluable in my kitchen.

What I found was that I often know how to make more complex recipes, but when I needed to make a more "standard" recipe - I was often at a loss.....how DO you cook a pot roast? Make a mint julep? What temperature DO you cook a yam at, anyway? All this and much more is in this book. This book has easy to find sections on meats, fish, poultry, drinks, desserts and much more, and many many recipes. It also has a provides a fairly exhaustive definition of almost anything cooking related from types of crabs to buy all the way to the various types of sugars available on the market.

When I'm at a loss for what to serve for dinner, I just flip through this book for ideas. The same goes for when I am experimenting and creating some new japanese-creole dish to subject my family to! :-)

This is a LARGE book, with no flashy pictures or anything like that (there are some basic drawings - for example, what part of the cow gets cut up for what kind of meat. Things like that), so you are getting a lot for your money.

I would highly recommend this book for anyone who enjoys spending any time in the kitchen. I enjoy it so much that I'm buying another copy as a gift for my little sister's wedding shower! :-)

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anderson & Hanna's New Doubleday Cookbook, January 18, 2005

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John Buelow - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Doubleday Cookbook (Hardcover)

This is a later printing of the white, one-volume 1985 revised edition, itself greatly expanded from the original two-volume edition of 1975. If you have either of the earlier versions, you probably want to replace it with this one even if you haven't yet wore your old copy out.

Page for page, this content of this volume is identical to other printings of the 1985 edition, but the format is greatly improved. The coverboards are colorful and studier; the binding is stronger; the type is about a point larger and sits on pages an inch taller and almost an inch wider; and the paper stock is considerably heavier--the book as a whole is nearly half again as thick as older versions of the 1985 printing, even though the only addition is a single blank leaf between the main body of the text and the index. The volume is actually sturdy enough, that you might hope to pass it on to your children or grandchildren. Meantime, the larger type is really much easier for aging eyes to read!

If you don't own an earlier version, I wholeheartedly recommend that you acquire this one, whether you like to cook quick or gourmet or simply to read. It seems to me by far the best general purpose cookbook on the market. I did use Betty and Joy and Fannie before I latched onto it, but I don't any more. The Doubleday cookbook has more recipes and a wider variety of recipes from around the globe; its directions are straightforwardly helpful not padded with angst-causing hocus-pocus; best of all, the recipes are reliable. They turn out, they taste good, they are faithful to the traditional taste proper to each: they work.

If before exile to a far away place I were forced to choose between the New Doubleday Cookbook and all of the specialty as well as general purpose cookbooks on my shelves, taken together, I would choose the Doubleday without hesitation. It's that good.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE ENCYCLOPEDIA, December 21, 2003

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Chris Callahan (Asheville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Doubleday Cookbook (Hardcover)

My wife and I both like to cook. I first purchased this book back when it was a white hardcover in the 1970's and repurchased the expanded edition with the cover shown in this ad in the mid 1980's. We have since given this cookbook as a gift to my mother in law for Christmas, and will purchase it again from Amazon for the first anniversary gift of my stepson and his wife.

This is the Encyclopedia of cookbooks. It has hundreds, perhaps over 1000 recipes (I've not even tried to count), but what makes it really good is its comprehensivness. It will take a meat like chicken, and tell you all about chicken, the different ways of cooking chicken, giving you tips. In the veggies section, you'll learn a bit about the history of each vegetable, and various ways of cooking them.

We have LOTS of other cookbooks. Our second most favorite cookbook is "The Joy of Cooking", but I assure you this one is better.

My wife, who is doing most of the cooking, almost always turns to this book if she needs to learn how to cook something new, or needs to refresh her memory, or needs to remember the estimated cooking times for turkey per pound, etc.

There is so much information in this tomb as to defy the imagination. Using just one example from how to boil an egg: this book tells you to avoid the green discoloration around the yolk--put the eggs in cold water, and start the boiling process with a cold start. When the water FIRST begins to boil, turn off the heat and let the eggs cook for varying periods of time (depending on whether you want truly hard boiled eggs or are trying to achieve slightly runny yolks with firm whites, etc.)Finally when the stove timer goes off, you pour the remaining hot water out, and put cold water on the eggs, stopping the cooking process.

As a result your hard boiled eggs come out perfect each time with no green edge discoloration.

This is just ONE tip out of literally hundreds, if not thousands, in this book. This is NOT a book written in 14 point fonts. This book has multiple columns, a fairly small font, and is about three inches or more in thickness, so it truly is a mini encylopedia.

As I said, we've got LOTS of cookbooks. But we'd likely take this one, and "The Joy of Cooking", "Beard on Bread", "The Joy of Cheesecake", and could do just fine. These books are our ESSENTIALS: all the others are just kinda nice to have around.